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2021 Legislative Agenda Draft
2021 Draft Priorities - Using an overarching diversity, equity and inclusion lens for policy consideration HUMAN CAPITAL Top Priorities: o Improve access to affordable health care, including a MinnesotaCare buy-in and pursuing other pathways to universal coverage. o Improve the economic security of households through successful safety net programs and ensure that pay and benefits for workers provide a route out of poverty. o Increase inves... Read More
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ENEWS: Legislative Agenda-Making & Economic Disparities
Dec. 16 Blueprint Blastoff Thank you to everyone who came to either or both of our Blueprint Blastoffs! We appreciate the time and input you gave us, and we are in the process of consolidating your notes and top priorities to be incorporated into a draft of our 2021 legislative agenda. Once that’s pulled together, we’ll send it out to all of you, so keep an eye out for that coming into your inbox sometime around the beginning ... Read More
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ENEWS: Blueprint Priorities, Health Care for All & Equitable Recovery
Last call for Blastoff registration & prioritizing Blueprint policies! Our second and final Minnesota Equity Blueprint Blastoff is happening next Wednesday, Dec. 16 from 12-1 p.m., so make sure to register if you’d like to provide your input for our 2021-22 legislative agenda! This meeting, which will be over Zoom, will build off the priorities ranked during the first Blastoff and create a masterlist of Blueprint ... Read More
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ENEWS: We Are All Criminals, Blueprint Blastoff and Economic Justice Creating Growth
For this week’s e-news, we present a longer reflective story via a visit with criminal and juvenile justice reformer Emily Baxter, the founder of We Are All Criminals, written by Elyse Eckert, Growth & Justice public engagement intern “One in four people has a criminal record; four in four have a criminal history” – header on the We Are All Criminals website What illegal acts have ... Read More
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ENEWS: Racial Economic Gap, Rural Climate Dialogues, and Manufacturing Woes
The Minnesota Solution to close the $287 billion racial economic gap One of our partners in the Minnesota Equity Blueprint work, Dr. Bruce Corrie, co-founder of OneMN.org, testified recently at the Minnesota House Select Committee on Racial Justice, presenting The Minnesota Solution, a set of policy recommendations to address the racial economic gaps of the ALANA (African Latino Asian and Native American) comm... Read More
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